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Linda Simpson : The Drag Explosion …the glittery queer history book we all need
Linda Simpson is very quick to point out that Drag Queens come and go, but very few survive the test of time.. She should know as, after 30 years at the top of her game, she continues to dazzle and delight her many very loyal fans. The world first caught sight of her in…
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Kenny Scharf : When World’s Collide
The pop artist Kenny Scharf is a survivor. All his good friends and fellow artists in NY’s East Village such as Keith Haring, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Andy Warhol succumbed to AIDS in the 1980’s. It sadly marked the end of one of the most exciting periods of contemporary art in the form of…
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Queerguru’s Music Editor Allison Ananis gets very Loud and Proud
It is nearly impossible to enter pride month without thinking of the triple-platinum award-winning queer activist and singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge. She recently released a new music video for her latest single, titled “One Way Out,” which will appear on a new album of the same name. The rock icon performs the song accompanied by her…
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The Queenly NFT : an ethical cryptogallery for queer creators
NYC drag queen Ruby Powers (aka nonprofit communications strategist Brent Lomas) knows firsthand that it takes a gay village (people!) to make queer art–and that fair compensation for artists is not always the norm. After listing their own artist-owned NFT in April 2021, they sought a way to ethically represent queer creators in this…
